Re: Re (tilly) 3: Little things ;)

I've worked for people who created job security by keeping essential information to themselves. This resulted in wonderful things like an important bit of scientific equipment where the data has a mysterious offset of somewhere around 8-12 seconds, only one person had the source and he refused to admit that there was a problem.

This was the same guy who wrote his own DOS-based multitasking system. The manual for it said 'commands are case-insignificant' but typing the same command with different capitalisation could give different results.

There are many more examples of similar behaviour from the same job.

Kevin O'Rourke

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Re: Re: Re (tilly) 3: Little things ;) by Caillte (Friar) on Dec 14, 2001 at 20:15 UTC
I went to university with a guy who claimed he would give himself job security by goingthrough his code at the end of a project and change all the variable names to single character names..... as he thought that this would make it harder to work on. This was such a successful idea that, last I heard, he works reparing computers for the company he worked part time for when at college ;) This page is intentionally left justified.	[reply]

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by Caillte (Friar) on Dec 14, 2001 at 20:15 UTC

I went to university with a guy who claimed he would give himself job security by goingthrough his code at the end of a project and change all the variable names to single character names..... as he thought that this would make it harder to work on.

This was such a successful idea that, last I heard, he works reparing computers for the company he worked part time for when at college ;)

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